thatobscuregamer.bsky.social
A canadian gamer that plays on Steam Deck as well as PC.
Enjoys emulation, Earthbound, RPG's and more!
Art is by @FourSwordsGreen on Twitter/X
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I'm still waiting for companies like Nintendo and Valve and whatnot to come over. I need them for news
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Oh boy- I'm actually building my new PC Tomorrow- spent like $500 on new parts and I'm recycling the GPU and PSU from my old build- so thankfully those are two parts I know are good- here's hoping the process goes off without a hitch
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Then you could argue that even preservation on PC itself is going down the shitter. Companies like Rockstar are going back and retroactively implementing anti-cheats that are incompatible with Linux, preventing Linux users from accessing the games they paid for
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I think they specifically mean legal game preservation. Right now it seems like the industry is just trying to destroy emulators and whatnot. Hell, if you wanna count things like proton as preservation (since, in my experience, some older pc games only work with it) -1/2-
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And what about things like the Mother Music Revisited project that dropped a few years ago? It was officially made by the original artists and was a new take on those lyrical adaptations. Would that come to Nintendo music as well? Or will they only upload the OG game music?
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Oh, speaking of which, I wonder if they'll release the HQ scores of certain game soundtracks, like Earthbound's lyrical adaptations of songs from the first game, or various official Orchestra performances and whatnot throughout the years
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I really don't get why they don't just drop massive bundles of music at a time- like on a per series basis. I get why things like smash would be a bit harder to put up on here, same with Earthbound since Itoi partly owns it, but they could totally put up all the Mario music
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Same goes for Earthbound
Though- this starting lineup is pretty wierd. Not gonna lie. Also- this isn't the same as the NSO emulators where they have shit emulators they need to custom optimize games for, why do the drip feed for music?
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Personally I'm kinda hoping Mother 3's OST will be put up here, preferably with the HQ tracks from Apple music included. It would be like the one thing American fans of the series can legally access from Mother 3 outside of smash without having to import or pirate shit
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It's a similar issue with Chibi Robo, except for some fucking reason, despite THAT series selling WORSE then Earthbound, Nintendo just kept churning out games in that series that kept getting lower and lower in quality, yet refusing to ACTUALLY market them in any meaningful way
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Think about it, they've locked sales to a single country. A relatively small country at that. They could easily triple their sales by opening sales up to people overseas, especially if they actually... you know, advertised the fucking game? Something this series seems to be allergic to doing right
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I mean when they first unveiled the game they DID say it would come out in all regions. Granted that was on the N64 but that's besides the point. There's also the fact that region locking games like this is such a dumb practice. They're litteraly choosing to make less money
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I know the history, and I don't need to learn Japanese, I've played the fan translation. But I'd still like to see the game get recognized as a part of Nintendo's library globally. The game is a masterpiece but Nintendo hides it away like they're ashamed of it or something
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It's exactly a month before Mother 3's birthday,I didn't even realize that but now I can't help but feel that it being exactly one month before Mother 3's 19th birthday is supposed to be yet another one of Nintendo's pranks on Earthbound fans,never before has another company hated their fans so much
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Yeah, I've never understood this. These news organizations DO realize they're painting a target on their back, right?
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I mean- tell that to Mother fans. When is Mother 3 going to be ready? The year 3000? It's already been almost 20 years now since the Japanese release
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Lol. I never actually got to play X, so I'm looking forward to it. Hopefully it works in Yuzu/Ryujinx, I'd love to play it at 60FPS on my PC
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Problem is, young me has matured into someone who likes the new direction- realizes there was no clean way to continue the first game's story, no clear arc to follow- so they're essentially advertising to a dead man
I still want to try it eventually, but I still gotta beat LIS 2 and true colors
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Yeah, so- funny thing about that. I never played LIS 2 when it came out and just completely abandoned the series since I was invested in Max and Chloe's story,but now that I've matured I've realized they just went a different direction and I've learned to enjoy it,But Square is pandering to young me
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Case in point, I've been doing this right now with my PC- I've stuck with the same archaic PCIE 3.0 DDR3 motherboard and 4th gen Intel CPU for a decade now, and I'm FINALLY upgrading to something actually made within the last couple of years. Goodbye 4 core 8 thread CPU, hello 16 cores 32 threads
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I don't nessicarily have a character for this, but I'm totally the type of guy to stick to using outdated electronics for like a decade, find some way to make money relatively quickly, and then immediately obsess over replacing the old piece of shit I've been using for a decade-
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And I'm also going to save up another $300 or so, assuming everything goes according to plan. So I should have more then enough for this upgrade. I'll be going from a 4 Core 8 Thread CPU to a 16 core 32 Thread CPU. I have some weaker CPUs lined up as backup options just in case
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The only leg up Nintendo has over that old PC with the switch is that Banjo Tooie actually launches without immediately crashing as soon as you start the game. But that's like the one thing they do better. And N64 emulators have only gotten better since then. How have theirs gotten worse?
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Same. You can't even argue it's a hardware limitation, I was emulating N64 games back in the mid 2000's with better accuracy on my old ass PC that litteraly had a Pentium inside it with no dedicated GPU. It was so old I had to use a CRT monitor. There's no excuse for how poor the quality is
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If they put half as much effort into actually improving the emulator itself as they do constantly playing whack a mole with these scripts, the emulator would probably be a lot better as a result
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Truth be told, I'm honestly shocked they haven't just tried going for global accuracy as opposed to this constant game of whack a mole with Lua scripts on a per-game basis. Especially when the Lua scripts already cause issues, like how Paper Mario would crash because of them
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As such, I'd say that something like this may not be one singular issue, but rather several issues all coming together to cause the issue. Nintendo may have already tried the same AOT fixes they used for Kirby, but saw it didn't fix it as it needed another fix stacked ontop of it
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Absolutely, however, skipping the EFB access isn't the only way for said bug to occur, and in older versions of dolphin, some options would make the starbits pick up just fine for maybe 10-20 minutes, before eventually exhibiting the same issues as skipping the EFB access entirely
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As such, I dont think it's one singular bug causing an issue like this, or various other issues throughout the catalogue, it's likely multiple bugs working together to mess things up, much like how OOT's water was messed up at launch by both using the wrong texture and lacking transparency
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For example,with Mario Galaxy, its well known that having "Skip EFB Access" on the CPU tab can make the cursor fail to pick up star bits, however, I also found that certain other CPU options could replicate this same bug. They weren't documented, and I'm pretty sure the options have been removed now
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I don't think it's the sole cause either, though it could absolutely be a factor. As someone who's used emulators in general for decades, I know very well that sometimes a bug can be the result of multiple inaccuracy issues put together
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Though, perhaps it's a little more forgivable here- this does seem like the kind of thing that would slip under the radar while testing. I doubt the testers were pausing much, and if they were, they probably didn't pay attention to the level names. Definitely better then Kirby and Yoshi's issues tho
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Honestly, considering how basic quality control issues have been getting past QA testing on this service, it would not surprise me if they took a shortcut by basically just reusing/lazily porting the NTSC Lua scripts to the Pal version and this is the result
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The 50Hz and Multilanguage support could be causing the problem if Nintendo is doing something remarkably stupid, like reusing the same Lua Scripts they use for the NTSC version on the Pal version, Alternatively it could be a poorly ported Lua script causing the issues as well
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I wouldn't write off the possibility of this being a bug in the original. Resident Evil had an issue with its audio in Dolphin that was technically present on original hardware, but was only noticeable in Dolphin because they didn't emulate the second set of instructions that canceled it out
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The reason I suggest the multi-language support and the 50Hz is due to this being a Pal exclusive bug. This doesn't happen with the NTSC rom in the emulator, only the Pal rom. Multi-language support and 50Hz are the two big differences between any NTSC and Pal rom
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If I had to guess, I'd say it's probably a combination of the bad AOT like you suggested, and something to do with the multiple languages of European roms somehow confusing the emulator. It could also be something to do with the 50Hz signal being emulated on a 60Hz device I suppose.
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Damn, Xenoblade is a good answer- I WOULD put Earthbound here, but Earthbound Zero/Beginnings REALLY isn't as good as the others- it completely lacks the scrolling health bar that made Earthbound and Mother 3 so special and interesting. It's not a BAD game, but I wouldn't say it's 'Fire'
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Tbh I wanted one as a kid, but I feel it would've been wasted on me- I wanted it just for the PS2 classic collections- nothing else. I wasn't a huge RPG fan like I am now, most of the Vita exclusives didn't interest me, I already owned the cross-platform games on 3DS, etc etc
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Really? I don't recall this being a thing. Then again, I mostly emulate the Xbox 360 version nowadays, so that might be why
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SteamOS is really the way to go...
Too bad you can't fucking use it yet on anything other then a Steam Deck. Seriously, it's like the best Linux based OS with the best usability and it's only available on my deck. I love the damn thing, sure- but I also want it on my main PC